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This worked for me. Thanks!

GL Screensaver Issue

When I upgraded to 12.04, the xScreensaver stopped showing the password dialog box when any of the higher-end, GL screensavers were enabled (e.g., GLMatrix). The password...

+1 for the last post about this.

Everything worked well for me, but I also needed to replace the "Command parameters parameters: %M" with "Command parameters parameters: %F".

Great. Thanks. I'll try that.

Today I upgraded from Gnome shell 3.2 to 3.4 in the hopes it would be more stable. Unfortunately, several Gnome Shell extensions that are "must have" for me worked perfectly in Gnome 3.2 but appear...

Hello. I'm looking for some help with the "Auto Nice Daemon" (AND) command and found very little information other than the MAN page. More specifically, I'm looking for how to create / display an...

Hello. The link in the post below doesn't work. Can you re-post the link or the exact name of the article? I'm having the same problem with gdl_box and way to find a way to continue using Google...

Thanks for the response. Yeah, it does appear to be installed. The package installs a right-click Nautilus option which is, in fact, displayed as expected. Also, I did try to re-install the deb...

Hello. I installed a .deb package (to install nautilus-send-gmail) that I want to remove, but I can't figure out how to remove it. I've tried searching for the package in both the Ubuntu Software...

I'm hoping a WebDav / networking expert can help me with a problem. I'm trying to copy files to a mounted WebDav location and getting an "Invalid filename" error.

Here is the situation in detail:...

MAFoElffen (or another boot-time guru),

Ok... so I removed "quiet splash" and noticed the system appears to hang (i.e., no disk activity) briefly when the following line is shown: running...

I don't have an answer, but I second the question! This happens to me all the time, where I forget to shutdown a virtual machine. A way to generate a warning or to suspend the VM would be great.

Hello. I posted this question to the pyRenamer Launchpad site and didn't get a response, so thought I'd try it here. Any suggestions would be appreciated!


I'd like to use pyRenamer to identify...

1)Version Of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 10.10
2)Laptop Maker: Sony
3)Laptop Model: Vaio VGN-FW270J
4)Known Issue: laptop will not recover from suspend and hibernate. Instead, laptop reboots (i.e., Sony...

Nice. Very helpful tutorial. Worked perfectly.

In a future version of this HOW TO, please consider including a brief explanation of several common UMASK value options, or include a link to more...

I'm experiencing the same issue except I have to scroll down through almost 20 screens (!) to find the OK button. For me, this only appears to happen when I bring up the Application Settings window. ...

Thanks. I'll give that a try and see what it tell me...

I'm hoping a Ubuntu guru can point me in the right direction on how to troubleshoot this.

After GRUB 2 comes up (I'm running Ubuntu 10.10) and I choose the OS to boot, there is about a 5 second...

hello. I'm having exactly the same issue... still looking for an answer. Can some ubuntu guru help?

In my case, I've tried putting the following into the location box, but it doesn't seem to do...

I wanted to share a solution I found to address a condition in Docky that generated consistent CPU usage even when the application should have been doing nothing.

Several weeks after installing...

Minor update: I've come up with a workaround. Go to Dolphin Config (Dolphin Settings -> Configure Dolphin -> Trash) and set the When Limit Reached field to "delete biggest files from trash". This...

Kaibob,

You mention you were able to create a post-processing script to open evince after creating a PDF using cups. Would you mind sharing your script? I am trying to do the same thing but have...

I love the idea of this script, but for some reason the script isn't working for me. When I run the script from the command line, it opens evince (minor mod to script to use evince). But when I...

I'm having a similar issue. It appears to have to do with Dolphin. When I run Nautilus, I can delete a given folder but when I try to do it via Dolphin, I get the "The trash has reached its maximum...

I also experienced the exact same problem on a Sony laptop running Ubuntu 10.10.

Once I removed gnome-do from the list of startup programs, the Ubuntu desktop launches successfully.